I'm guessing sociopaths make poor soldiers, since functioning as part of a team is critical to good performance.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
The other, of course, involves orcs.
-John Rogers

I joined (not considered joining) because I wanted to be a part of the world's greatest fighting force. Yes, I knew I ouwld have to kill people and I was/am okay with that. I don't and haven't ever "wanted" to kill people. Maybe with the notable exception of a few major jackasses I have had the displeasure of knowing.

"Something which threatens your life is a problem, everything else is an inconvenience."

What does those who are serving in the armed forces think of people like this

And why did you join. I considered joining in order to help the people in places we are fighting and kill terrorists who are bombing schools and trying to prevent a women's education,ect.

My opinion of people that join like for that reason are a disgrace to the marines and would end up causing more problems then help, besides them being sick ****s for wanting to kill people/ end rant

curious what others think of this post and what in your opinion is something to join for.

People like that usually get weeded out through psych evals and such. It doesn't sit right with me because being a Marine is about more than killing people... the killing is just a bonus along with the fresh baby corpses! (last part was a joke... maybe)

I joined for a couple of reasons. I was heavily recruited by Duke for grades and Georgia Tech and U of Tenn for football but not on full rides so the military was somethign that would fix that. I also had always wanted to join some branch and until I got older it was the Army, my grandfather was infantry in WWII.

I joined the Corps because of all the recruiters I talked too they were th emost passionate and when researching the history of the Corps the brotherhood and history of it all just sang to me more than other branches. And, yes, not going to lie the Dress Blues did play a part in it... those things are awesome. They look sharp and are poon magnests!

Originally Posted by hittman

u aware the USA didn't defeat germany in WW2??

True, well not single handedly anyway, but we did pretty much beat the Japapnese into a bloody mess and provided enough of a roadblock to Hitler to make him over reach too fast and too fast on other fronts and make VERY pisspoor tactical decisions.

My church is a gym, services conducted by Lee Priest, Arnold is god, J.C. Stands for Jay Cutler and Ronnie is Moses! I use the preacher bench for confessionals and the squat rack to pay my pennance! Praise be unto Gold's!

Bad reason to join, but its quite natural that some of the people who want to join an alpha fighting force will have a little too much testosterone. Will hopefully get toned down in boot camp, as he learns that his place is at the bottom of the barrel.

Whenever I've gone to observe training exercises, the USMC tends to be very good about specifying when it is acceptable to engage an enemy, and the guidelines are very strict (maybe even too strict). Cultural appropriateness is also highly emphasized.

As long as he's not a danger to his own people then it's ok with me, it's better to have someone who enjoys killing rather than someone who hates it and could snap at any moment.

Illogical reasoning. Your statement is that anyone who does not enjoy killing would snap but the person who enjoys killing would not snap. I would say anyone that enjoys killing probably has some underlying issues already.
I was in the marines and I never wished to kill anyone. Mainly because I knew if I was trying to kill the enemy, that the enemy was also trying to do the same to me. I just preferred not to be in that situation.

I joined the Corps to be a bad ass commando I didnt make it thru due to injury but whatever I was at MCRD 3 months dropped at week 5 so I got a pretty good idea of bootcamp.

Anyway theres a book called "On Killing" by some LT COL. Its about the psychological effects of war and killing...its some real ****. People who want to kill are fking stupid...but there is a small percentage of humans that have psychopathic tendencies who thrive in killing environments, lots of special forces are of this type. However its only like 3%..very low number.

Drill Instructors have told us stories about there buddies getting blown 2 bits feet from them and the Drill Instructor just had this passionate cold gaze monotone voice telling this it was scary brahs. We were all rushed into the head to hygeine by the numbers because some dbag didnt shave that day so we all got fked.

I was in the marines and I never wished to kill anyone. Mainly because I knew if I was trying to kill the enemy, that the enemy was also trying to do the same to me. I just preferred not to be in that situation.

No disrespect, but why did you join the Marines if you didn't want to go to war?